I’m probably one of the few people that has waited this long to read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The books, targeted at the YA audience, chronicles a teenaged girl and her friends who live in the remnants of the United States at some point in the future. In this future, one of the [...]
Full disclosure upfront: I am friends with the author of With or Without You. I stumbled upon Brian’s blog, which, at the time, was chronicling his life as an MFA candidate, a few years ago. It was an interesting blog and I kept coming back. One of the things he wrote about was his thesis [...]
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan is one of the more imaginative books I’ve read recently (and be warned… this review leans a little toward spoilers, so proceed at your own risk). It focuses around two teenagers in the Midwest who are both pretty miserable. As you might guess from the [...]
Something for Nothing by Connie Bailey was an unexpected find from Dreamspinner Press. I don’t often think of this publisher as taking on young adult genre material, but this book comes very close. The only thing separating it from true YA for me is the sex because it’s more than a school or public library [...]
Eighteen excellent short stories are inside How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan. Of those I have to single out two as extraordinary… stories that will sit in my brain forever and, hopefully, make me a better writer for having read them. As you might guess from the title, the book is about [...]
“When you say that things are fine so much, it sounds like a lie,” — Alex to Dade. That’s just one of the lines that gets to the heart of the characters in Nick Burd’s debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary, a book that’s among the finalists for this year’s Lambda Literary awards in [...]
“Being yourself might make people reject you. People you desperately care about. Being yourself only works if you’re basically cool. Which I’m not.” – David That’s the eternal issue of being a teenager, which is only heightened when the teen is dealing with coming out. That’s the subject of Lee Bantle’s David Inside Out. David [...]
